phpmyadmin: getting blank page at localhost/phpmyadmin

[Murray Eisenberg]

On 29 Oct2017, at 8:52 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Oct 28, 2017, at 20:04, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
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>> Found the cause of the problem: a syntax error in config.inc.php.
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>> I found the error by cd to /opt/local/www/phpmyadmin and then executing php index.php. That gave the syntax error message.
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> Sounds like you've configured php not to display errors in the web browser. That's a good security practice and may even be the default setting these days; you don't want an error message to reveal sensitive information about your server to a public visitor. But if you want to temporarily change that setting and display errors while working on a problem, you can edit your php.ini. Or you could have consulted whatever file you've configured php to log its errors to, or possibly your web server error log file.

Hmm… in php.ini (for php71, which is what’s being used AFAIK — it’s what “which php” shows) —I have:

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
display_errors = On
display_startup_errors = On


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